Penny Marshall Directing Film About First Female Baseball Hall of Famer

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Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:13:02 +0000
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“A League of Their Own” director Penny Marshall is returning to the baseball diamond. She will direct a biopic about Effa Manley, the manager of the National Negro League’s Newark Eagles and the first female Baseball Hall Of Fame inductee. She was active in the 1930s and ’40s. It’s Marshall’s first film in more than …